At least 40 Martyred, 60 Wounded in Baghdad Bomb

A suicide bomber blew himself up amid a crowd of pilgrims south of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 40 people, police and medical officials said. A security official said the bomber detonated his explosives among a crowd of pilgrims at a residential building in the town of Iskandiriyah while on their way to the holy shrine city of Karbala for the Arbaeen commemoration.